Uh-oh. Is the router down?
This post is the README for my home network and something I can refer to later. It’s the story of how I replaced a underperforming consumer-grade router with a fully virtualized RouterOS instance using QEMU and PCI passthrough for the network. Like any software project, this project is source controlled and rebuildable from scratch. If the router dies, I simply deploy a new router instance. This is the reproducibility you’d expect in a datacenter, not a home office. ...